Mesic Mixed Hardwood Forest

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Mesic Mixed Hardwood Forest graces many rolling hillsides in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain from New Jersey to Virginia. Canopy trees including American beech, tuliptree, and a few oaks lend summer shade to Christmas fern, mapleleaf viburnum, white wood-aster, flowering dogwood, and other plants in the understory.

This forest occurs in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of Virginia and Maryland, extending north on the Coastal Plain to New Jersey and Long Island, New York. It also occurs occasionally at low elevations of the Blue Ridge and adjacent Ridge and Valley in Virginia and Maryland.